This book examines the 35-year career of Vinod Thomas. He spent those 35 years within the World Bank Group in different positions and in different regions. This book is organized in four parts. First...
Presenting the proceedings of the May 2003 World Bank Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), the volume imparts new research findings and discussions on key policy issues related to poverty...
This monograph attempts to summarize the main findings of the World Bank research program known as the City Study. The study examined five major uban subsectors - housing, transportation, employment location...
This report is part of an investigation program of the Bank, called Estudios de Ciudades (The City Study), which examined five principal urban sectors (housing, transport, employment, labor force and public...
After sustained economic growth in Colombia over two decades, the labor market in Bogota exhibited considerable tightening up in the late 1970s. Unemployment rates were seen to have declined and the rate...
Various theories related to urbanization are linked to explain the regional differences in urbanization as well as the size distribution of cities in India simultaneously. The tight relationship between...